5 health benefits of falling in love, makes you live long!
Falling in love does give you a million flavors. Hearts flutter, faces glow just by remembering them, life feels so much more beautiful.
In fact, falling in love can not only make you happier and more energized, but it also has many health benefits. Are you curious about the benefits? Please refer to the description below, yes.
1. Extend life
freepik.com/pressfotoA study published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health observed the mortality rate between those who were married and living with their partners, compared to those who lived alone.
As a result, those who have a strong and happy marriage relationship are known to live longer than those who live alone. However, the mortality rate shows a higher rate for adults who have never been married at all, compared to adults who have been married but who have been separated.
Marriage relationship is one way how a person is connected socially. And from the results of this study it can be concluded that strong social ties can extend life. Conversely, bad social ties can double the risk of death.
Launch Living Healthier Together, from the results of various studies it has been concluded that people with poor number and quality of social relationships, have a higher risk of various diseases and death.
2. Keeps the heart healthy
freepik.com/pressfotoNo wonder that love is symbolized by a heart image because it turns out that falling in love has benefits for heart health. Launch Living Healthier Together, married people have a half-fold lower risk of dying from heart disease than women and men who have never been married or have been divorced.
Experts say that this may be because people who are in love or in a happy and lasting marriage will experience an increase in the function of the autonomic nervous system, which controls bodily functions such as the heart rate.
In addition, falling in love can also decrease the body’s stress response, which in turn can lower blood pressure. As is well known, normal blood pressure is very important to keep the heart healthy.
A study reported in Annals of Behavioral Medicine involving 204 married adults and 99 other people who were single. They were asked to use a portable blood pressure measuring device for 24 hours.
As a result, adults who are in happy marriages have lower blood pressure than those who are alone. Through observation, the researchers saw that those who were married, especially happy couples, had more blood pressure drops during sleep than adults who were single.
“Research has shown that people whose blood pressure remains high throughout the night are at greater risk of cardiovascular problems than people whose blood pressure drops,” said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor at Brigham Young University, United States (US) and lead researcher.
Holt-Lunstad explained that the presence of a partner can encourage healthier living habits, for example by inviting themselves and their partners to have a medical check-up to a doctor, or eating healthier foods.
In addition, a marriage relationship can also be a source of emotional support, both in times of joy and sorrow. Sharing good news, for example, according to Holt-Lunstad, can generate positive feelings, which in turn will improve bodily functions.
From the results of this study also found other facts, namely those who are married but unhappy, actually have higher blood pressure than married and happy people, and single adults.
In other words, only when a marriage is filled with love and brings happiness to each of the parties, will the marriage have a positive effect on heart health.
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Not only that, a happy marriage is also very helpful for people who have heart attacks. In a 2015 study, it was found that married people had a 14 percent lower risk of dying in hospital after a heart attack. They also had a shorter length of stay, averaging 2 days.
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3. Reduce pain
freepik.com/tirachardzAnother advantage of being in love is that it acts as a natural pain control. Launch WebMD, based on the results of studies through observation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), it is known that having a long-term partner can encourage more activation of the part of the brain responsible for controlling pain.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) complements the findings above. Based on a study involving more than 127 thousand adults, it was found that married people tended to complain less often about headaches and backaches.
Another study published in the journal Psychological Science involving 16 married women. They were then threatened with electric shocks. Interestingly, there were differences in responses between women who held the hands of their husbands, compared to women who held the hands of foreign men and women who did not hold hands at all.
There is widespread activation attenuation in the nervous system that supports the threat response of women who hold their husbands’ hands. This activation attenuation decreases even more in the woman holding the foreign male’s hand.
In other words, women who held their husbands’ hands showed less response in stress-related brain areas. The happier their marriage, the bigger the effect.
4. Accelerate wound healing
freepik.com/rawpixel-comHaving a healthy love relationship can actually speed up wound healing. This is concluded from the results of research published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.
Researchers from Ohio State University Medical Center, USA, gave blisters to married couples. After being observed, the wound healed twice as fast in partners who interacted warmly with each other than in couples who were hostile to each other.
5. Good for lung health
freepik.com/pressfotoHaving a happy marriage can help protect against the risk of complications and death from pneumonia. When compared to single women and men, those who were married were less likely to need ventilator support, had shorter hospital stays, were less likely to end up in the intensive care unit (ICU), and had a 13 percent lower risk of dying during treatment as a result. pneumonia.
Study published in the journal Clinical Epidemiology involving more than 67 thousand pneumonia patients. As a result, married patients have a lower risk of being hospitalized than those who have never married, recently divorced, or people who are widows or widowers.
Researchers believe that being married can reduce the risk of severe infection because having a partner who can provide social support and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
So, those are the various benefits of falling in love for health. For those who are currently in a relationship, make sure that love is maintained. For your health too, you know.
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